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I just bought a 500GB external USB / eSATA drive. For my "convenience"
the manufacturer preformatted it as NTFS.
I plugged it into my Ubuntu Feisty box and it immediately appeared on
the desktop. I'm impressed that NTFS is supported and recognized,
that's good.
However there are two bugs here.
1. There is no messaging indicating that the drive is formatted for
Windows, and that will affect how well it works under Linux, and that I
may want to reformat it for Linux for better performance and features.
(extended attributes, etc...)
2. I want to reformat the drive as ext3. I know how to do this from the
command prompt, but my non-Linux-expert family members would not. I
can't find any Gnome tool for this.
** Affects: gvfs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Status: Incomplete
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Can't (re)format a USB disk from the GUI
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102523
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